Red Hat warns Fedora Linux users about a security flaw in the upstream XZ/liblzma packages leading to SSH server compromise.

Marknote is a new application for the KDE Plasma desktop environment that lets you create rich text notes and organize them into notebooks.

Arch Linux 2024.04.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s first ISO snapshot powered by Linux kernel 6.8.

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 31st, 2024, brings news about XZ backdoor, Fedora 40 beta, Blender 4.1, Tails 6.1, and more.

Linux Mint 22 will ship with the Mozilla Thunderbird email client as a DEB package rather than a Snap app, as well as PipeWire by default.

Debian-based and systemd-free Nitrux 3.4 distribution is now available for download with the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop and Linux kernel 6.7.

System76's Oryx Pro Linux-powered laptop has been updated with a 14th Gen Intel HX-Class CPU and up to 96GB DDR5 5200 MHz RAM.

Linux firmware update utility fwupd is moving away from XZ Utils and will use zstd (Zstandard) for future releases for compressing metadata.

Linux kernel 6.7 is now EOL (End-of-Life) and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 6.8 kernel series.

Qt Creator 13 open-source IDE is now available for download with offline and online installers for Linux on ARM, as well as other changes.

Fwupd 1.9.16 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the zstd compression algorithm for compressing metadata.

FFmpeg 7.0 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with Dolby Vision profile 10 support in AV1 and other changes.

Netplan 1.0 open-source network management utility is now available with simultaneous WPA2 and WPA3 support, Mellanox VF-LAG support, and more

Kodi 21.0 open-source and free home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media is now available with major changes.

KDE developer Xaver Hugl explains why the explicit sync protocol will finally encourage the Wayland adoption among NVIDIA GPU users.

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 7th, 2024, brings news about FFmpeg 7.0, Kodi 21, Linux 6.7 EOL, explicit sync, Nitrux 3.4, and more.

EndeavourOS ARM branch is in danger of going away forever due to lack of maintainers and the lack of recent changes in upstream Arch Linux ARM

Canonical launches Ubuntu Pro for Devices subscription for IoT deployments, bringing security and long-term compliance for up to 10 years.

GParted Live 1.6.0-3 live system based on the GParted free partition manager is now available for download to address the XZ backdoor.

OpenSSL 3.3 is now available for download with support for QLog for tracing QUIC connections, limited support for polling of QUIC connections.